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Game Wardens Helped Poachers Kill the Last of Mozambique’s Rhinos
Mozambique's rhinos have been living on the edge of extinction for more than a century, but now they're finally gone for good
It Costs At Least $30,000 to Climb Mt. Everest
On top of dealing with the physical challenges, climbers have to be loaded.
The Only Clouded Leopard Left in Taiwan Is Stuffed on a Museum Shelf
Zoologists call the results of a 13-year-long hunt to find any remaining clouded leopards "disappointing"
Physicists Have Been Waiting For This Painfully Slow Experiment for Nearly 86 Years
Thomas Parnell, the school's first physics professor, set up an experiment. It's still going
IBM Engineers Pushed Individual Atoms Around to Make This Amazing Stop-Motion Movie
IBM was the first to draw with atoms, and now they're making them dance
It’s Crazy to Move a Hundred-Year-Old Tree, But This One Is Thriving
There's controversy surrounding the oak's new home, but park or no park, the Ghirardi Oak is staying, and the transport seems to have been a success
Physicists to Shoot Extremely Fast-Moving Electrons at Dinosaur Skin Fossil
The actual color of dinosaur skin is still very much up for debate
Can This Marketing Campaign Make Hipsters Turn to Jesus?
Marketers can convince us to do crazy things, like tattoo brand names on our foreheads or jump out of airplanes. But can they make hipsters turn to God?
We’re Just 35 Devil’s Hole Pupfish Away From the World’s Best-Documented Extinction
If the species does go extinct, it will join Florida's Dusky seaside sparrow as an endangered species that has died out while under federal protection
Oslo Runs on Garbage, And Now It’s Running Out
When you burn garbage for as fuel, you can find yourself in a tricky spot
Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon Is a Raging Hurricane
At the heart of Saturn's hexagon, a giant hurricane
This New Robot Has a Sense of Touch
A robot with a sense of touch can better navigate our cluttered world
Meet the Woman Who Taste-Tested Hitler’s Dinner
Now 95, Margot Woelk is ready to share her story of life in the Wolf's Lair
What Are You Thinking About?
One researcher recorded the fascinating inner monologues of random people walking, sitting or standing in New York City
The First LPs Weren’t for Music—They Were Audiobooks for the Blind
Record companies hadn't yet figured out how to make music sound good on LPs
One Confused Loon Spent 48 Days Trying to Hatch Rocks
In July 2011, something strange was going on with one of the loons at a Massachusetts sanctuary
This 16-Year-Old Has a Bionic Hand Almost as Good as Luke Skywalker’s
While Patric Kane didn't have his hand sliced of by a lightsaber, he's got a bionic replacement that's one step closer to Skywalker's eerily lifelike robot paw
Here’s How Scientists Are Keeping You From Inhaling Deadly Microbes in the Subway
An invisible odorless gas will be released into seven subways throughout New York City this July
In True Pirate Form, the Pirate Bay Can’t Find Anyone to Take It In
The Pirate Bay just relocated to Icleand, but they may have to be on the move again some time soon
How a Pizza Maker Revolutionized the Stunt-Kite-Flying World
First, let's establish the fact that there is something in the United States called the American Kitefliers Association
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